The History of PeruJ.F. Linton, 1858 - 162 halaman |
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afterwards Alderman April Assessor bank bluff Board elected Buffalo Rock census Central Rail Road CHAPTER Chicago and Rock Churchill Coffing citizens Clerk coal Collector commenced Company Constable Council elected David Perry Dixon's Ferry early elected Alderman elected Trustees election held Erasmus Winslow erected farmers Fire Warden H. S. Beebe HISTORY OF PERU hogs hundred Illinois Indians inhabitants interest Isaac Abraham Island Rail Road issued J. L. McCormick J. P. Thompson James Cahill John Hoffman Kaskaskia Kinney La Salle County land Legislature Lewis Mayor ment miles Mississippi Myers Ninawa number of votes Ottawa P. M. Kilduff panther party population Portage des Sioux portion prairie present residence river Rock Island Rail Rock Island Railroad S. W. Raymond Salle County Second Ward settlement settlers soon steamboat Street Commissioner T. D. Brewster tion town trade Treasurer treaty western Whole number Wiscon writer
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Halaman 160 - Chief of the northern Indians made war upon them. A band of the Illinois, in attempting to escape, took shelter on this rock, which they soon made inaccessible to their enemies, and where they were closely besieged. They had secured provisions, but their only resource for water was by letting down vessels with bark ropes to the river. The wily besiegers contrived to come in canoes under the rock and cut off their buckets, by which means the unfortunate Illinois were starved to death. Many years after,...
Halaman 28 - An act to provide for the completion of the Illinois and Michigan canal, and for the payment of the canal debt.
Halaman 131 - By the Illinois river, it is probable that Buffalo, in New York, may be united with New Orleans, by inland navigation, through lakes Erie, Huron and Michigan, and down that river to the Mississippi. What a route ! How stupendous the idea! How dwindles the importance of the artificial canals of Europe, compared with this water communication...
Halaman 110 - 'glory to God in the highest," Captain Hudson sent his first telegraphic announcement in the memorable words, " GOD HAS BEEN WITH us. THE TELEGRAPHIC CABLE is LAID, WITHOUT ACCIDENT; AND TO HIM BE ALL THE GLORY.
Halaman 160 - Rock, near the foot of the rapids of the Illinois, is a perpendicular mass of lime and sand stone washed by the current at its base, and elevated 150 feet. The diameter of its surface is about 100 feet, with a slope extending to the adjoining bluff from which alone it is accessible. Tradition says that after the Illinois Indians had killed Pontiac, the great Indian Chief of the northern Indians made war upon them. A band of the Illinois, in attempting to escape, took shelter on this rock, which they...
Halaman 38 - ... expectations, the completion of the canal injured Peru. It is true that Peru was at the western terminus of the canal, but a "steamboat and canal basin" was built on the flood plain at La Salle, and this became the actual harbor in which steamers and canalboats mingled for the trans-shipment of goods. The forwarding business, after a long and ineffectual struggle on the part of Peru to retain it, finally settled at La Salle. La Salle was laid out in 1837, and the village throve by the trade of...
Halaman 160 - Starved Rock, near the foot of the rapids of the Illinois, is a perpendicular mass of lime and sand stone washed by the current at its base, and elevated 150 feet. The diameter of its surface is about 100 feet, with a slope extending to the adjoining bluff from which alone it is accessible. Tradition says that after the Illinois Indians had killed Pontiac, the great Indian Chief of the northern Indians made war upon them. A...
Halaman 160 - Mock, near the foot of the rapids, and on the right bank of the Illinois, is a perpendicular mass of lime and sand stone washed by the current at its base, and elevated 150 feet. The diameter of its surface is about 100 feet, with a slope extending to the adjoining bluff from which alone it is accessible. Tradition says that after the Illinois Indians had killed Pontiac, the French governor at Detroit, the northern Indians made war upon them. A band of the Illinois, in attempting to escape, took...
Halaman 52 - At length it appeared to have spent its material and departed the entire country. Suddenly it reappeared ; and while the places previously afflicted remained healthy, Peru was devastated to an extent not surpassed, if equaled, by any place in the United States. The estimated number of victims was from five to six hundred, being about one-sixth of the entire population. It was observed that less panic and excitement were produced than upon its visitation in 1849.
Halaman 156 - Upon the letting of work on the canal, he became a contractor for all that portion below the Little Vermillion, including locks, basin and channel, amounting to nearly a million of dollars. He soon embarked in other speculations and business, and became the most influential and noted man in this part of the State.